Resources for Leaders
Gain quick access to temple and family history resources and information.
General Handbook
Temple and Family History Work in the Ward
Guidelines and instructions from the General Handbook (25.2) help ward leaders as they organize and carry out temple and family history efforts.
Organizing Temple and Family History Work
This video gives an overview of the Church leaders and members responsibilities in temple and family history work as described in chapter 25 of the General Handbook.
Ward Temple and Family History Coordination Meeting
An insight into an effective ward temple and family history coordination meeting.
Ward Temple and Family History Council Meeting
How to discuss temple and family history in a ward council meeting.
How can Relief Society and Elders Quorum Presidencies Counsel Together
Join Elder Randall K. Bennett and President Camille N. Johnson as they discuss ways Relief Society and Elders Quorum presidencies can counsel together to lead the work of family history in local wards and branches.
Family History Activity Report
Ordinances Ready
Family History Activity Report
This report includes 5 sections that show an area, stake, or ward’s engagement in different activities related to temple worship and family history.
Understanding the Family History Activity Report and How to Use It
This session will walk users of the Family History Activity Report through the report to help them understand the report and how to use it.
Ordinances Ready
Ordinances Ready is a simple tool that searches the Family Tree for your ancestors and others that have not yet received their temple blessings.
How to Use Ordinances Ready
A simple video on how to use the Ordinances Ready feature.
Family Name Assist
General Instructions
Family Name Assist
A simple tool for preparing and printing family name cards for temple baptisms and confirmations.
Family Name Assist for Leaders
A simple way for leaders to help members prepare family name cards for the temple baptistry.
Ways to Access Family Name Assist
There are different ways you can access the Family Name Assist tool, depending on your calling.
Guide for Children Turning 12
Before going to the temple baptistry for the first time, it helps to prepare spiritually and to understand a few basic things about the temple.
Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction
Each year, General Authorities and General Officers of the Church provide temple and family history training.
FamilySearch Center Materials for Local Events and Centers
View a collection of branded FamilySearch materials you can purchase to enhance local genealogy events and FamilySearch center displays.
Inspirational and Instructional Videos
These videos can be included in training and other presentations.
Promised Blessings
Family History
The Promised Blessings of Family History (Part 1)
Modern apostles, including David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, Neil L. Andersen, and Dale G. Renlund have promised many powerful blessings to those who participate in family history and temple service.
The Promised Blessings of Family History (Part 2)
Temple and family history work can provide you with purpose and strength as you selflessly engage in it. It can also help you understand that you are precious in the eyes of God.
Connect. Belong. RootsTech 2018
When we discover who we are in relation to each other, we think differently, act differently, and treat other people differently.
This Is Family History
Maybe you didn’t realize it, but you are living your family history every day. The small and big moments that are happening in your life make up your own story. Yours is the family history of future generations.
One Work of Salvation and Exaltation
Missionary and Family History Work Go Together
Missionaries in Houston, Texas, find success by combining missionary work with temple and family history work.
Finding with Family History
Teaching their missionaries to be confident and converted to the role of family history as it relates to the work of salvation changed the Houston Texas mission for good.
How Temples and Family History Strengthen New Members
This video follows the journey of a family who joins the Church, then experiences the joy of temple and family history work as they discover ancestral names and perform their temple ordinances.
Increasing Convert Retention with Temple and Family History Work
Watch missionaries teach Zayna Chubbs from the booklet Families and Temples, help her find family names, add them to FamilySearch.org, print out ordinance cards, and take the ancestors' names to the temple for proxy baptisms and confirmations.
Family History for Reactivation
When Brother Aguilar returned from his mission, he vowed to stay strong. A temple open house, a visit from a mission companion, and family history all lead to a family united and sealed for eternity in the temple.
2025 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction
Elder Neil L. Andersen, Elder Patrick Kearon, and members of the Temple and Family History Executive Council provide insight about receiving personal power through temple ordinances and covenants.
Preparing Children and Youth
2022 Friend to Friend: Temples are the House of the Lord
A virtual broadcast for children hosted by children and featuring messages about temple covenants from Elder Gary E. Stevenson and members of the Primary General Presidency.